Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.